A view of the famous Fox Glacier from Cove Rock, South Westland, New Zealand. — (Rly. Publicity photo) — In a descent of 9,000 ft. the Fox Glacier comes down to 670 ft. above sea level. Nowhere else in the world does a glacier dip so low, except in the Arctic and Antarctic, with their quite different snow level. The area of ice, tributaries, and snowfield, has been estimated at 10,894 acres for the Fox Glacier. — “The splendour of silence—of snowjewelled mountains and ice.” — Ingram Crockett
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Railways Department New Zealand Government Railways Department
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